Lonecat that's interesting re. Temp being below 10C. Thanks everyone for confirming that my gas/elec spend may be normal for this time of year. I will relax my paranoia about our central heating system.

I have just moved to monthly billing where I provide monthly meter readings so am much more aware now of usage, hence this thread. I always got frustrated with my dad's economy measures with the heating as a child but am getting increasingly Scrooge like myself!

Ours is 40:60 gas to electricity over the course of a year but during the winter months gas usage exceeds electric by about 65:35 (Gas around £130pcm at peak), so it depends what period you are looking at.

In the winter quarter it is very much a 70:30 split Gas:Electric in Spring and Autumn it is roughly 50:50 and in the summer it is 30:70. I can get daily consumption figures for gas comparing it to the mean daily temperature and it is interesting the moment the mean temperature drops below 10degrees how much more gas the heating uses.

I appreciate that every house and its inhabitants are different making direct comparisons of bills very difficult. However I am really surprised that our gas bill is twice as much as our electric bill, and am wondering whether there is something wrong with our (high tech unnecessarily complex imo) heating system that came with the house.

What's your gas bill like in proportion to your electric bill?

We have gas central heating, gas hobs on the cooker, but everything else is electric.